Verbatim Transcription Crafted With Care

Verbatim transcription is word-for-word transcription that records speech as it happened rather than tidying it. The work goes to transcribers who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around audio, video and document material in almost any format, including legacy media.

Overlapping speech is marked with the point of interruption, not smoothed into turns. That is settled before work begins and not discovered afterwards, so the first delivery is the one you can use. Anything on physical media is digitised first, logged, and then worked from the digital copy.

Yes. NDAs cover every person on the project, uploads and deliveries are encrypted, and nobody outside the assigned team can open your material. Archive material is often the only copy in existence, so originals are logged, restricted and returned. Verbatim transcription often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it.

You choose: editable Word or Google Docs, a searchable PDF for filing, or Excel where the content belongs in a table. The format for verbatim transcription is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Send a template once and every later order follows it.

Upload the material, approve the written quote and deadline, and work begins - no deposit, no account to set up. Say what the verbatim transcription is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently. Say what the material is stored on, because an older format changes what has to happen before anyone starts work. Anything ambiguous is queried with you before work starts.

You can specify how far verbatim goes, from strict to intelligent verbatim. That is part of what verbatim transcription means here, not an extra, and anything genuinely outside the brief is quoted before it starts. A digital master of the source can be returned alongside the finished file where the original is fragile.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What verbatim transcription involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. Older recordings often mix languages, and each one is kept as it was spoken instead of flattened into one.

General transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and legal transcription at $2. The source format makes no difference to the rate; digitising legacy media appears as its own line in the quote. Verbatim transcription is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

The date is fixed in the quote, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available where you need it. Legacy media such as tape, MiniDV, DAT or optical disc adds a digitising step, and that is quoted and scheduled up front. Verbatim transcription is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each transcript is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. What gets checked on verbatim transcription is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify themselves: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Degraded tape and low-bitrate audio go to people used to that loss, not to software that fills the gaps with guesses. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.